Alice Roberts

Biological anthropology tends to focus on skeletons because that's what is often left behind in the ground, but I am a whole-body anatomist, I'm a clinical anatomist and that's what I teach, I teach it all, not just the skeleton, the muscles and nerves, blood vessels.

English Scientist

An anatomist specializes in detailed knowledge of body structures, not just general medicine or biology.

Study Focus

The term is usually used in a professional or academic setting, such as universities or research institutions.

Professional Context

An anatomist may work in diverse environments such as labs, medical schools, or museums of natural history.

Occupational Variety

 So I hope you've enjoyed that. That's what a comparative anatomist does for a living. We study the structure of these animals. We try to mimic it; we apply it back to the human situation, maybe making new technologies for protective devices or maybe even making new treatments for medicines for people's diseases who mimic these weird environments.

How whales breathe,...

 being applied would take a microscope slide and we very carefully melt onto this slide this will then go into a robot that's going to apply one of those stains to it okay and our anatomist are going to go in and take a deeper look at this so again this is what they can see under the microscope you can see

A map of the brain -...

 claw and what I saw when I came to the site was a fibula here it's a little bone the leg that claw in general matched the fibula in other words I could use my hardest mine and I could use my anatomist mine to think that this really was matching that fibula belonged to a predatory dinosaur that's that's a

Extreme Dinosaurs PIPE...

 that's real longer now along with something very strange if you take this thing you know very well it weighs very little the volume of a long is very small but what about the area of the lung anatomist were arguing very much about that some said that normal normal

Fractals and the art of...

 until renaissance anatomist Vesalius spoke out against him. As a prominent scientist and lecturer, his authority influenced many young doctors of his time. But even then, it took another hundred years for an accurate description of blood flow to emerge,

Ancient Rome’s most...

 son of a goldsmith, he was a sickly kid whose school chums died of plague. He survived to cut up corpses as an anatomist, studying organs shared across species. He found a duct in animal skulls that sends saliva to the mouth. He refuted Descartes' idea

The most groundbreaking...

 body cadavers the way anatomist teach so they hired me to try and develop this expertise I hadn't developed any particular love for any piece of anatomy I loved the human body it's just fascinating and I didn't know much about

How a Woman's Donated...

 My colleagues and I, we think it was their lungs. I am both a paleontologist and a comparative anatomist, and I am interested in understanding how the specialized dinosaur lung helped them take over the planet.

The secret weapon that...

 and trying to classify what they saw. They weren't quite sure what to do with the clitoris. It didn't appear to have anything to do with making babies. The leading anatomist at the time declared

The uncomplicated truth...

 multi-layered complex wing membranes would be one of the most interesting experiences an anatomist could have three different kinds of flying dragons inhabit our alien world with heads

Anatomist